At Apple’s WWDC 2023, iOS 17’s coolest new features are adapting old pre-smartphone tech like answering machines and alarm clocks in some very Apple ways.
For a lot of developers, watching WWDC is a trepidatious affair where they wait to find out whether they’ve been “Sherlocked” — that is, their apps have been outmoded by Apple building their features into its operating systems. We saw it this year when Apple announced Journal, which many have compared to the third-party app Day One. Last year, it was Continuity Cam, which is a lot like smartphone-as-a-webcam-app Camo, and before that, there was Screen Time, which gobbled up traits from Moment.
When a locked iPhone with iOS 17 is placed upright in landscape mode, say on a MagSafe stand, it’ll show a new, customizable interface with widgets, the time, or even a screen-spanning clock face. One of those faces looks very much like some of the analog alarm clocks of old, especially at night when the clock face’s digits or analog clock indices and hands switch to a dim red. Apple even showed a small complication on one clock face that lets you know your next alarm is active .
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